Kamai Point

Kamai Point (48˚40'44" 123˚22'25" SE side of Coal I, off NE end of Saanich Peninsula, N of Victoria). Kama Kamai (c 1830-90), who pre-empted the E half of Coal I in 1873, was a native of Hawaii—otherwise known as a Kanaka. Earlier in his career he appears to have lived on San Juan I and worked there as a boatman during the Pig War, the 1860s dispute between Britain and the US over who should control the San Juan archipelago. Louis Andrew Kamai (1867–1949), Kama’s son, received a Crown...

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